Merry Kringle Finished At Last

I loved the Christmas colors in my Merry Kringle throw.  

I mostly made up the edging as I went except for the last yellow, blue and green rounds I used an edging from one of my pattern books.  I didn't like the stitching the pattern used on the last round of red so I changed it.   

That's what I love about crocheting - it is so easy to modify.

Another look at the colorful edging.

I can hardly wait to display this beautiful throw at Christmas time!  

Here you can see the large 36 center granny squares surrounded by the solid small granny squares and then the edging.

I finished Merry Kringle just we were winding up our road trip to Alaska. 

Unfortunately, I've been under the weather with a nasty cold since arriving home Friday.  I've had a couple sleepless nights but luckily have been able to sleep during the morning hours when my coughing has lessened.

I'm wishing everyone a Happy Labor Day here in the USA!  Don't forget to fly your Stars and Stripes!

Please join our host, Sue, at It's A Very Cherry World (here) for more REDnesday!

Sandy at Teacup Lane

REDnesday - Merry Kringle

I decided to add a border of small (two rounds) solid color granny squares around my base of 36 larger granny squares.  I'm thisclose to finishing this round.   It's a work in progress (WIP).

My colors of red, green, blue and yellow repeated around in solid colors granny squares.  I'm making up my edging as I go - no pattern here.  I planned to block this when I completed it but I read that only natural fibers can be blocked.  Darn...this is acrylic yarn.

I made a mistake and had to frog three solid color squares to get to one of the large squares where I missed a space with the red round.  I just cut into the round and added the double crochets in red where needed.  So glad that worked.

Do you make boo-boos too?

I also joined a knitting and crocheting community on line called Ravelry (here).   It's a fantastic FREE website where I can download my photos from Flickr easily to post about my crochet projects.   It's so neat now I can track my crochet/knitting projects (when started, finished, yarn used, hook used etc.).  Now I can look back to see what yarn was used and if the item is washable.   Now if I could just figure out how to put a Ravelry button on my blog...tried it and it didn't work.  May have to get an appointment with the "Tech Guy" (i.e., hubby) for a consultation.   LOL!

Blog over to our sweet host, Sue, at It's A Very Cherry World (here) for more REDnesday!  You will be delighted with wonderful REDs in blogland.

Today we are in Billings, MT.  It's a housekeeping day...laundry and groceries and errand running.  I have a small cold so I'm resting as much as I can.  We just spent two travel days of over 400 miles each day to get here from Seattle, WA.  Today is so beautiful.  MT is known as the "Big Sky Country" and it is today....all blue and no clouds.  It's warm enough we turned on the RV A/C - first time in months we have had to use it on our Alaska trip.

Sandy at Teacup Lane

REdnesday - Merry Kringle

Introducing "Kringle"!

It's Never Too Early to Think "Christmas" and RED!   And what could be better than a Ty Beanie Baby named "Kringle" ...all dressed up as Santa Claus.

Kringle asked me to tell you he worked very hard crocheting the first four granny squares.  Because of all his hard work I've decided to honor him and name this Granny Square throw after him..."Merry Kringle".

Five rounds Granny Square - with the 4th round blue and the 5th round red.

Please join our host, Sue, at "It's a Very Cherry World" (here) for more REDnesday!

Before you know it Christmas will be here!

Sandy at Teacup Lane